Thank you so much, Tom! I'm thrilled by your praise, as always. I do have to give most of the credit to Borges, to be honest, whom I am trying to follow closely up to the point where, yes, I give a positive Blakean twist to what is skeptical and ironic in Borges. The stuff at the end about wandering is closer to being mine, about the release from order. But thank you.
Like the good teacher that you must be in your undergraduate classes, you made me want to pull a book or two of Borges stories off the shelf and return to the labyrinths of forking paths.
This is absolutely brilliant, Michael, with its suggestion that we are all immortal beings because we are drops in that ocean of ideas that produces waves like Einstein's Theory of Relativity or Blake's "Jerusalem" where everything always exists. I suspect only you could have dreamed it up!
Thank you so much, Tom! I'm thrilled by your praise, as always. I do have to give most of the credit to Borges, to be honest, whom I am trying to follow closely up to the point where, yes, I give a positive Blakean twist to what is skeptical and ironic in Borges. The stuff at the end about wandering is closer to being mine, about the release from order. But thank you.
Like the good teacher that you must be in your undergraduate classes, you made me want to pull a book or two of Borges stories off the shelf and return to the labyrinths of forking paths.
This is absolutely brilliant, Michael, with its suggestion that we are all immortal beings because we are drops in that ocean of ideas that produces waves like Einstein's Theory of Relativity or Blake's "Jerusalem" where everything always exists. I suspect only you could have dreamed it up!